Marieke Scheel
UCLouvain, Belgium
marieke.scheel@gmail.com

 EDUCATION

29/08/2022 – CURRENT – Tartu/ Louvain-la-Neuve, Estonia/ Belgium

MSC IN GEOINFORMATICS – University of Tartu/ Catholic University of Louvain

ERASMUS Joint Master‘s in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management, Track 2 in Land Use Systems at the University of Tartu (Year 1) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Year 2).

10/08/2021 – 07/06/2022 – Longyearbyen, Norway

ERASMUS FULL-YEAR EXCHANGE – THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD (UNIS)

Arctic Geology (https://www.unis.no/studies/geology/)

30/08/2018 – 07/06/2022– Lund, Sweden

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE – LUND UNIVERSITY 

Program details: https://www.nateko.lu.se/education/bachelors-programme-physical-geography-ecosystem-science

Bachelor thesis: Increasing forest mortality and its drivers: Simulating Central European forests under climate change

04/10/2017 – 30/07/2018 – Tübingen, Germany

GENERAL STUDIES AT THE LEIBNIZ KOLLEG – UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN

General studies including Social Sciences (Political Science, Economy, Sustainability Studies, Sinology), Natural Sciences (Physics, Biology, Astronomy) and Arts (Photography, Choir). Term papers were written in Biology and Sinology. (https://uni-tuebingen.de/einrichtungen/verwaltung/stabsstellen/leibniz-kolleg/das-leibniz-kolleg/)

  WORK EXPERIENCE

20/03/2023 – 30/07/2023 – Remote

STUDENT INTERN – STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE TALLINN

NetZero cities - developing an online dashboard for climate action and investment planning for EU cities, using the Python library Dash for visualisation of both non-spatial emission data and spatial location data.

01/10/2022 – 15/03/2023 – Remote

WORKING STUDENT – CONDATA GMBH

Working student in GIS for the fibre company condata on a part-time basis. Main tasks include updating data files, simplifying and cleaning data as well as writing Python scripts to automise data quality checks.

01/03/2021 – 31/07/2022 – Lund, Sweden

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ASSISTANT – LUND UNIVERSITY

Continued work on Bachelor thesis project exploring the role of climate drivers, management and age structure in tree mortality using a different version of the process-based vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. The study was published as a research letter in the journal Environmental Research Letters in October 2022 titled Increased Central European forest mortality explained by higher harvest rates driven by enhanced productivity.

01/06/2021 – 31/07/2021 – Lüneburg, Germany

FIELD ASSISTANT – LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY 

IAESTE internship to assist a project of the POEM research group (PriOrity Effect Mechanisms) investigating the plant order of arrival effects on ecosystem processes. Sampled and processed field data, including soil core sampling, root washing and sorting, biomass harvest, sampling of species individuals for DNA extraction and LAI measurements.

01/01/2020 – 01/06/2021 – Lund, Sweden

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ASSISTANT – LUND UNIVERSITY 

Processing soil samples and tree litter samples from a Swedish spruce forest for the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Research Station Hyltemossa, Sweden.

01/06/2019 – 20/08/2019 – Hyltemossa, Sweden

FIELD ASSISTANT – ICOS HYLTEMOSSA 

Assisted in various measurements related to ecosystem-atmosphere interactions in a spruce forest. Those included measuring LAI, sampling biomass, sorting litter and soil samples and measuring soil gas fluxes with chambers. Also conducted BVOC measurements to evaluate the effect of bark beetles on spruce trees for a PhD thesis.

VOLUNTEERING

15/08/2021 – 10/12/2021

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE – THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD (UNIS)

Representative of the Department of Geology in the student council at UNIS, main tasks included organizing student life (i.e. events like student gatherings) and addressing any issues that students had.

02/09/2019 – 04/06/2021

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE – LUND UNIVERSITY

Representative of the SNG (Physical Geography and Geology) student council in the Corporate Relation Committee (2019-2021), the Education Committee (2019/2020), the Library Board (2020/2021) and the Health, Environment and Safety Committee (2021). Mentor during the Novisch Period (welcoming new students) of the Science Faculty (2019).

 DIGITAL SKILLS

   Programming/ Office Skills

Microsoft Office     Python MATLAB   Basic R Basic PostGIS  Basic PostgreSQL

GIS

Arc Map    ArcGIS Pro     QGIS  Basic IDRISI       Basic FME